Improvement in setting-instruments for attaching buttons, studs



o. HEATON;

Setting-Instrument for, Attaching Buttons, Studs,

No. 168,994, Pat'nted.0ct.19,187.5.

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UNI ED STATES PATE T OFFIcE.

DAVID HEATON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT Ill SETTING-INSTRUMENTS FOR ATTACHING BUTTONS, STUDS, &c.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 168,994, dated October 19, 1875 application filed September 30, 1875. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID HEATON, of the city and county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Setting-Instruments for Attaching Buttons, Studs, &c., by prongs, to wearing apparel, and of which the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description suflicient to enable others skilled in the artto make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a settinginstrumentembodyingmyimprovements. Fig. 2 is a side elevation and partial section of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of the face of the lower jaw of the setting-instrument, showing the form of the die. Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line as w of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a modified form of die.

Similar letters of reference occurring on the several figures indicate corresponding parts.

My invention is designed as an improve ment upon the setting-instrument for which Letters Patent were granted to me under dates of February 23, 1875, and September 21, 1875, and numbered 160,056 and 168,016, respectively; and it consists in providing the lower jaw with a novel form of die, which, taken in connection with the upper jaw, constituting the holding mechanism of the said setting-instrument, produces a more simplified, effective, and durable mode of construction than that shown in my previous'patents, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

As described in my above-mentioned patcuts, the setting-instrument is designed to attach buttons, studs, &c., having penetratingprongs for fastenin gs, to shoes and other wearing apparel, by putting the prongs through the 'nraterial, and clinching their ends on the back part of the same; the object of the present improvements being to simplify the construction of the instrument, and the operation of attaching or setting buttons having difl'ercut-sized lengths of shanks, in order to render the use of the same easy and effective, and without adjustment of parts, as heretofore, in the hands of unskillful persons, as well as others.

Referring to the drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, A and B repre-' sent the two jaws of the setting-instrument, having the handles 0 and D operated by the hand, in a manner well known. The upper jaw A is formed with a recess, E, opening from one side for the reception of the buttonhead, the bottom of the recess being of an inclined or tapering shape from the rear to the front of the same, and is provided in the center with a slot, F, extending through the bottom of said recess, and having an arched or concave form in the face of the jaw. The lower jaw B is provided with an elongated die, I), and a shorter die, I), arranged parallel to each other, and constructed in a concave fOlll1 in cross-section, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The die 1) extends the same distance back on the face of the lower jaw as the slot F in the upper jaw A, while the shorter die 1; is ar ranged in a central position to theother, as shown in Fig. 3. The die b receives the two front prongs of the metallic fastener, and the die I) the single rear prong of the same, when driven through the material to which the but ton is to be attached, and firmly clinched upon the back part.

It will be observed that the bottom of the recess being of an inclined or tapering shape, and the dies 12 and 1) extending as far back as the slot F, buttons having shanks of different lengths can be readily adjusted and held in the proper position for setting in the upper jaw A. by pushing the snmeback in the slot until the bottom of the button rests securely in the recess, and the dies band 1), extending back in the same direction with the slot, receive the points of the fastening-prongs, to allow of a ready and efficient means for attaching buttons, having said different-sized lengths of shanks, to shoes or other wearingapparel.

In Fig. 5 are represented IllOtllfiOiltlOl'lS of the die. adapted to be used in connection with metallic fasteners of a corresponding shape, in the coi'lstruction of which the general principles of my invention are adhered to, as will be readily perceived.

The construction of the said holding and clinching mechanism being as hereinbefore described, the setting operation is performed by placing the shank of the button, having a me-i tallic fastener attached thereto, within the slot F, and pushing the same back until the button is securely fixed in position in the recess E. The material to which the button is to be attached is then inserted between the jaws, and the handlesO and Dclosed quickly together drives the prongs through the material, and clinches them upon the back part of the same, as fully described. in my previous patents.

The advantages of my invention will be readily perceived over complicated and expensive devices used for the same purpose, inasmuch as itcombines, in its construction and operation, cheapness, strength, durability, with a ready adaptation to the purposeintended.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

In a setting-instrument for attaching buttons to wearing apparel, the upper jaw A, constructed with a slotted recess, E, having an 

